Sechuana


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Sech·ua·na

(sĕch-wä′nə)
n.
Variant of Setswana.
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Noun 1. [画像:Sechuana - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana]Sechuana - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana
Sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
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Indeed, critical or scholarly inquiry into two of Plaatje's multilingual publications, namely, Diane tsa Secoana le Maele a Sekgooa a a Dumalanang Naco (Sechuana (2) Proverbs with Literal Translations and their European Equivalents), and A Sechuana Reader (3) (further: Diane and Reader, respectively), could be taken as almost non-existent.
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To preserve the traditional Bantu languages, stories, and poetry, Plaatje published his famous Sechuana Proverbs and Their European Equivalents (1916), the Sechuana Phonetic Reader (with the linguist Daniel Jones) in the same year, and the later collection Bantu Folk-Tales and Poems.
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